Pros
- Most likely to offer you the salary you want - High profile projects, 5/6 stars hotels - Great for portfolio - Lady Boss seems friendly and pretty generous - Lady Boss is very critical of details, High learning curve - Diverse culture and friendly colleagues - Good Central location with access to bus stops and MRT and many food options - If you don't need personal or family time, this is for you
Cons
- Will offer you the salary you want because hard to hire new staffs due to high turnover rate and very picky/demanding - High profile projects that are never ending. Always redoing within impossible deadlines. Be prepared to spend your year there clearing past jobs. There can be more than 10 revisions in one area. When it comes to revisions, it's not minor. Can be redoing back renderings eventhough it's past Documentation stage. 10 weeks timelines suddenly crash into 1 week rush. Hence, OT till past midnight consecutively. You probably won't see the finished project. - Always asking team leaders to check for manhours but don't see a problem when team members are clocking way more than 12hrs a day due to crazy deadlines. Will blame on "poor time management" when it should be boss/leaders' poor project management - Lady Boss is very fickle-minded. Says A to designer A, B to designer B, C to designer C. No point recording minutes because the design will change again and designers will get blamed for "forgetting". Micro management in designing - every tiny detail needs to be approved by Lady Boss eventhough she says no need. Also, double job getting other directors to comment since she has final say in everything. Everyday spent trying to book and wait for meeting slot. - Some designers design blindly through SKP and leave bad and missing details for the next designer to resolve for them. IDs are asked to do FFE but screw up big time as well since lack of material and documentation knowledge. - Good staff leave due to health issues and total burnt out - Some of the long-time staffs may seem nice, but be wary. They speak differently of you when they're alone with Boss. Walking CCTVs. - You take over the blame and shame once you leave the company or on leave. All project mistakes will be directed to you